NBA TV analysts talk Rockets’ playoff hopes

Rick Fox on the Rockets: “This team is winning because they can score the basketball. They are beating good teams and are heading into the playoffs on a high note. They are a much better team than they were last year, which has a lot to do with Dwight Howard, but they have also just improved and matured.”

Chris Webber on the Rockets’ recent success: “I love the energy that these guys have. I believe in their second-half record. I have to believe in them until they prove me wrong. It just seems like this team could have something special.”

Webber on where the Thunder and Rockets stand in the Western Conference: “I see the Thunder third, behind the San Antonio Spurs and Los Angeles Clippers. I like Houston, but I trust San Antonio.”

Fox on Rockets guard Patrick Beverley: “Patrick Beverley approaches the game with an intensity you want all of your players to have.”

Webber on Beverley’s aggressive style of play: “He’s not a dirty player. [It takes a lot of] heart to play a full game with this kind of energy. You have to love his heart and attention to detail.”

Fox on Beverley: “My role in a championship era was to show up and play like Patrick Beverley: to disrupt, be aggressive, be physical and dictate the outcome of the game from that end of the floor. That’s how I survived an extra five or six years in the league.”